What do the last 2 whinefest evasion posts have to do with me showing the hypocrisy of the denialist political cultists? If they could address the issue, they wouldn't have to run from it like they do.
It's the denialists here who universally declare that one must devote 100% to any belief, if one actually believes it.
Yet denialists do not devote 100% to any of their causes.
Therefore, either of these conclusions must be true:
A. Denialists are lying about every single thing they claim to believe.
or
B. Denialists are sleazy hypocrites. They only think the other side has to devote 100%, and apply a different standard to themselves.
Denialists, you may now explain whether "A" or "B" is the correct conclusion. My money is on "B". Y'all are just hypocrites.
I'm an avowed sceptic yet I have a huge compost pile, a solar array (now in need of replacement after 25 years), a geothermal heating system for my house and a gravity fed water system powering my various outside lights and other systems.
Whatchyou got buster?
Hi,...I cut my "vacation" short before the riots start in oh so green Germany where energy prices have gone through the roof....and what greets me here? We had sub zero temps since middle of September and tonight 10 - 20 cm snow and -7C are forecast. The Geese knew better and have left us already in the first week during September.
Watch my neighbor from across the river discing his field at full throttle because he figures after tonight it`s likely not to thaw out till the end of May:...@ 10:12 in this video
Garmin GPS shortcuts Manitoba - YouTube
Good thing I got my birthday present early. I might need it sooner than later when our RCMP has to close the main roads. We chain up and take the back-roads but it`s pretty hard to spot these in a blizzard. I`m all set now and I could go home "IFR" if I have to with my Van. That damn cheapo GPS is almost as good as what I had 12 years ago in my Cessna 260. Last year it took till the end of October till the snow started flying and my grand children sang Christmas songs...or I had to carry my snow chains. Every year this shit happens 1 or 2 weeks sooner and hangs in there later and later....and I thought we moved far enough south when we left the Yukon Territories. Must be nicer where You are..???
Sometimes I wonder if Canada is on the same planet that Al Gore is talking about..!!
So, you are getting winter a bit early this year. But last year you really didn't have much of a winter.
Yes, it is nicer where I am at. 48 degrees, headed for a high of 70+. But we have had so little rain this summer that the Coast Range is under Red Flag fire warnings.
The Canadian winter that never was - Canada - Macleans.ca
Photograph by Tim Smith
Canada without winter is a foreign place. Not white, not cold, not snowy, like most of us have known it to be. Not conducive to carnivals across the country that attempt to celebrate this inhospitable but beautiful season. For 43 years, Winnipeg has hosted the Festival du Voyageur in Februarywhen winter has traditionally been most wintry. We have snow sculptures, the snow maze, the snow mountain, toffee [served] on snow, and the snow bar, explains spokesperson Emili Bellefleur. One would have to be hypothermic not to see the importance of snow.
So, when the city received nearly none from above this season, there was only one thing to do: fake it. More than 200 loads of man-made snow were delivered by a local company, which usually supplies ski resorts. It wasnt free; the bill totalled $10,000. And it wasnt ideal. We saw brown, rusty spots from the dump truck, and the texture wasnt as good. You could see chunks of ice, says Bellefleur. But it was real snow. Not Styrofoam or plastic. Or mud or dead grass. And in the winter, in Canada, that matters.
This is, after all, a country so defined by snow and cold that our money features outdoor ice skaters and hockey players (the $5 bill), polar bears (the toonie), snowy owls (old $50 bills) and icebreakers (new $50 bills). We boast corporate empires built around the sale of snow tires and shovels (Canadian Tire), cold medication (Shoppers Drug Mart), long johns (Stanfields), down-filled coats (Canada Goose), and even hot chocolate served at Christmas in paper cups decorated with snowflakes and, of course, outdoor ice skaters and hockey players (Tim Hortons). Among the most valuable paintings by two of our most famous artists (Paul Kane and Lawren Harris) are those of stunning snowy, icy settings. Our fermented frozen grapes are world-class, and no other country produces more or better maple syrup than us. Canada is, as we all have sung, the true North, thank you very much.
That our national identity, our culture and our economy are so tied to winter makes whats happened over the last few months all the more disconcerting. On average, Canada experienced temperatures 3.6° C higher than normal this winter, and 18 per cent less precipitation. This season was, in fact, the third warmest and the second driest in 65 years. Which might not sound so bad except that the last two times it was warmer, in 2009-10 and 2005-06, it was much snowier and wetter. And the last time it was drier, in 1956-57, it was colder. Until now, Canada has never had such hot days with so little snow. So in many ways, says David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada, this has truly been the year that winter was cancelled.
Even more unusual: this was the exact situation in every region, no matter how far north or south, east or west. In the second-largest country in the world, its hard to get the same story, explains Phillips, but Canadians from Goobies, Nfld., to Yoho, B.C., to Kugluktuk, Nunavut, were all asking one question: Where is winter?
As long as my electrcity bill is not doubling compliments of assholes like you, Im happy.
